Posted
11:56 AM
by Gene
I had to post this:
They're staging opera again at the baths of Caracalla. If the sight awes us now, imagine what it was like brand new. I repeat, our culture can't do things like this anymore.
P. S. If I had comments I'd probably hear it about slave labor, the corrupt Roman caesars, etc., etc., ETC. What I meant is, the kind of noble inspiration that radiated through Rome's culture -- that inspired the Founding Fathers, among others -- is missing today. We'll see it at Ground Zero, where the ugliest white elephants will remind us of our aesthetic impotence.